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After an emergency Parliamentary session Saturday, Russia approved President Vladimir Putin’s request to send troops into the turbulent nation of Ukraine. The move came after Russia had already started taking hold of ...

A group of men dressed in black and carrying knives attacked people at Kunming Railway Station in southern China in what Chinese state television is calling a “violent terror attack.”  Approximately 27 people are de...

By KC McKanna A growing number of people are interested in investing in companies that perform well environmentally as well as economically. Unfortunately, measuring environmental performance is not as straightforward as...

Disclosure: I own CMRE stock

The National Basketball Association has asked LeBron James of the Miami Heat to trade the fearsome black carbon-fiber mask he wore on Thursday to protect his broken nose for a clear mask. While black masks are not banned...

In a series of exclusive interviews, Business Insider spoke with members of Al Shabaab — the newly emboldened Islamic militant group that attacked the Westgate mall and repelled a raid by SEAL Team Six — to ask how t...

Painting peak oil by the numbers.

In a golden decade for American film, the Oscars encompassed the gritty, unadulterated fun of the 1970s. The red carpet fashion, the political statements, and the backstage romances stole the spotlight away from the actu...

Larry Ellison is doubling down on his quest to make the Hawaiian island of Lanai a beacon of sustainable living. "I was just looking at the Lanai five-year budget," he told a group in Las Vegas recently. "And wow, it's e...

Earlier this week, Warren Buffett gave Fortune Magazine an exclusive clip of his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. The excerpt included "fundamentals of investing" that Buffett had identified. Fortune had...

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Federal and state banking regulators issued an enforcement action against Sunstate Bank of Miami in January, according to a report released on Friday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to President Barack Obama for 90 minutes on the phone Saturday about the escalating situation in Ukraine, the White House said.  The White House said that Obama expressed "deep co...

Neither Zack Hahn nor his fellow James Rumsey Technical Institute students were the least bit frustrated as they considered how to continue improving the robot they designed — a labor of love that recently took top hon...

In the new book The EROS Equation, relationship expert Eve Eschner Hogan offers a set of strategies that can help strengthen good relationships and can help strained relationships (whether work-related or personal) to me...

Mt. Gox, once the dominant exchange for bitcoin trading, on Friday said more than $470 million of the virtual currency vanished from its digital coffers, kicking into high gear a search for the missing money by victims a...

Apple sold more than $1 billion of Apple TV set-top boxes in 2013 and is investing heavily in the next generation of products, CEO Tim Cook said at the company's...

They're split on splitting PayPal from eBay. PayPal's colorful co-founders, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, are on opposite sides of the fence when it comes to billionaire investor Carl Icahn's...

Want to end recessions, reduce inequality, prevent fraud and help immigrants? It's time to install postal banking.

Today, the ConnectEd program received its largest single donation from software company Adobe.     

A Google source said, "We have a variety of ways we enforce this policy, including automation in our system and a robust tool for users to report abuse for every kind of sharable content on G+."     

"We're entering a golden age of marketing," says Marketo chief marketing officer Sanjay Dholakia in an interview with VentureBeat.